First Friday: Place/Holding

  • Friday, May 3
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
  • 217 JOHNSON ST, SANTA FE, NM

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on First Friday and our Mobile Artist in Residence's exhibition 'Place/Holding.'

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on the First Friday of every month. Admission is free all day for New Mexico residents and free for everyone from 5 PM–7 PM. 

Enjoy a showing of Place/Holding, an exhibition by Brian Fleetwood (Muscogee Creek), the Museum’s first Mobile Artist in Residence. Place/Holding presents Fleetwood’s jewelry created by single-use plastics collected from different communities in the Musuem’s Art to G.O. truck. Stop by for a look at the exhibition inside the Axle Contemporary truck, enjoy music by Adrian Wall (Pueblo of Jemez), and refreshments! 

Read more about Place/Holding here. 

Place/Holding will open on April 19th in the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza. Place/Holding is presented by Art to G.O. and Axle Contemporary.

Photograph of a street and an adobe building with a tree on the left of the frame. Parked in front of the building and on the street are two trucks, one a grey mobile art gallery and one the Art to G.O. truck with cloud motifs on it and two tables in front.
Close-up photograph of a pair of hands holding a plastic mold over a table. On the table are small colorful plastic creations.
Photograph of the front of a grey mobile art gallery in the background and the front of the Art to G.O. truck in the foreground. Behind both trucks are leafy trees turning gold.
Axle Contemporary

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Be sure to enjoy openings, extended hours, and more at each stop down Palace Avenue. 

First Friday partners include:  

Patina Gallery
Victory Gallery
New Mexico Museum Foundation Shops
Owings Gallery on Palace
Hecho Gallery

Peyton Wright Galleries
New Mexico History Museum
Sorrel Sky Gallery
New Mexico Museum of Art

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